Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Most of my favourite bloggers (food or otherwise) have ate and published raving posts about this place. Day in day out night in night out my mind had been on 'Hai-wong! Hai-wong! Hai-wong!' (that's king crab in Cantonese). It is high time to get it over with.

Pity we cannnot seem to find time during weekends coupled with the fear of waiting for tables. So armed with vision of drooling seafood, 4 of us decided to brave the rush hour traffic on a workday. People traffic that is, we took the Putra Line to the Kelana Jaya stop (last station) then walked across the overhead bridge.

Once seated, these were placed:-

Achar (Mixed vegetables preserved in savoury sauce with crushed peanuts). 3 ladies, so we were happy. That's my fresh Apple+Orange Juice while the others had 'Cha-wong' (A type of Chinese Tea). The red packet contains a perfumed damp napkin.Phitoy just had to have peanuts instead so he asked for a plate.I was put in charged to order so I did it flawlessly. Ecpc. Just name the dishes most bloggers said good.

Hak-Beh Khuat (Guinnese Pork Ribs)Ngai-Yau Hai (Buttered Crabs)Took 2 crabs. They served only local ones.Mantau (Plain Dumplings). We took double order of these as these fried soft buns were so very good to wipe clean the butter crabs' gravy with. Also, only Phitoy had rice.Ham-Tan Sotong (Salted Egg Yolk Squids)As usual, an obligatory plate of greens which was Lai-Pak (Baby Bokchoi?)Phitoy settled the bill. Aiya, forgot to ask them to take away the packets of damp napkins and deduct the cost from our bill. Usually if we remember to collect it back, they are used to wipe car steering wheel, dashboard, telephone.. etc. Otherwise we tend to leave it intact on the table. We find the fragrance too strong for mouth and hands:-The address and contact number:-

lyrical lemongrass & joe, do try something different from these favs & report!

meiyen & teckiee, reasonably good food at easy to find/reach & comfy atmosphere. Crabs were a bit small but local ones usually are, no? The food did not hit me like 'whoa'. Afterall, with so many positive reviews, my expectations were really sky-high.

this place the abrasive boss rich & famous one bought a small backStreet fella ( few shops away ) and converted him (still da chief cook ) and place into a King Crab as you all now know and well...the verdicts are ...in... story went that he started off the revitalised business by pulling in all his cronies and associates to turbo charge the initial boom ...and da rest is ...hehehe( sorry ah today got mood for history )

tummy, thoz, fingers all calling out loud for these super-crawlicious crustacean friends hehehe :) Have to go liao, e'one keeps telling me about this place :) Shoot, hope I don't end up there e'day since it's only 5 min. away from my house hahaha :)